List of Senior Members of Selwyn College, 2010

The Master of the College is Professor Richard Bowring, MA, PhD, LittD, Professor of Japanese Studies. His special interests include classical Japanese literature and the history of Japan.s religious traditions.

The Vice-Master is Dr Michael Tilby, MA, PhD, College Lecturer in French, whose special interests are in French literature since 1800.

The Bursar is Mr Nick Downer, MA.

The Research and Teaching Fellows and Bye-Fellows, with their subjects, are as follows (*denotes a Director of Studies):

Archaeology and Anthropology
(1) *Uradyn E. Bulag. BA, MPhil, PhD, Reader in Social Anthropology. His research interests include historical and political anthropology, China, Mongolia and Inner Asia.
(2) *David Chivers, MA, PhD, ScD, formerly Reader in Primate Biology and Conservation. He is Director of Studies in Biological Anthropology.
(3) John Ray, MA, FBA, FSA, Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology. His special interests are Late-Period Egypt and Hellenistic Egypt.
(3) Siân Thomas, MA, PhD, Centenary Research Fellow. Her special interests are legal traditions in Egypt under Ptolemaic, Roman and Arab rule.

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
(1) Richard Bowring, MA, PhD, LittD, Professor of Japanese Studies. His special interests include classical Japanese literature and the history of Japan.s religious traditions.
(2) *Haruko Laurie, BA, MLitt, University Senior Language Teaching Officer in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Chemical Engineering
(1) *John Dennis, MEng, MA, MBA, PhD, CEng, FIChemE, Reader in Chemical Reaction Engineering. Research interests in fluidised bed combustion and gasification, SOx and NOx control from stationary combustion processes, fundamental hydrodynamics and imaging of fluidised systems.

Classics
(1) *Rupert Thompson MA, PhD, University Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, specialising in Classical Philology and Linguistics. His areas of interest include historical linguistics, especially the history of the Greek language, dialectology and sociolinguistics, and Mycenaean language and epigraphy. He is also interested in the development of computer-assisted technologies for classical language learning.

Computer Science
(1) *Richard Watts, MA, PhD, Bye-Fellow. Founder of Kynesium, a local computer consultancy firm. His research interests include compilers, HCI, operating systems and programming language design.

Economics
(1) *Christos Genakos, BSc, MSc, PhD, College Lecturer in Economics. His research interests include industrial organisation, applied microeconomics, economics of innovation and behavioural economics.

Engineering
(1) Marina Antoniou, BA, MEng, MA, PhD, Donal Morphy Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering. Her main research interests include the analysis, development and modelling of power semiconductor devices for medium and high voltage applications.
(2) *Stewart Cant, BSc, MA, PhD, Professor of Computational Engineering, who has special interests in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and combustion.
(3) *Daping Chu, BSc, MSc, PhD, FInstP, Head of Photonics and Sensors Group in the Engineering Department and Chairman of CAPE (Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics).
(4) John Dennis, MEng, MA, MBA, PhD, CEng, FIChemE, University Reader in Chemical Reaction Engineering. Research interests in fluidised bed combustion and gasification, SOx and NOx control from stationary combustion processes, fundamental hydrodynamics and imaging of fluidised systems.
(5) *James Matheson, MA, CEng, MIET, Head of the IT Services Division in the Engineering Department. His special interests are computer networking, software engineering, and computer architecture.
(6) *James Moultrie, BTech, MA, MBA, PhD, CEng, University Senior Lecturer in Design Management, with research interests in the field of innovation, design management and new product development.


English
(1) *Philip Connell, BA, PhD, University Lecturer in English, who specialises in eighteenth-century and Romantic period literature.
(2) *Sarah Meer, MA, PhD, University Senior Lecturer in English, who specialises in nineteenth-century and American literature. .

History
(1) *Michael Ledger-Lomas, PhD, Fellow and Research Associate of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group. He specialises in the religious and cultural history of nineteenth-century Britain.
(2) John Morrill, MA, DPhil, LittD, FBA, FRHistS, Professor of British and Irish History, and Michael Graves Fellow in History, who has special interests in British, Scottish and Irish History from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
(3) Hugo Service, MA, PhD, Bye-Fellow and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of History. He specialises in Central Europe in the Second World War and in the aftermath of the war.
(4) *Mike Sewell, MA, PhD, Lecturer in History and International Relations, Institute of Continuing Education. He specialises in American History and International Relations.
(5) *David Smith, MA, PhD, PGCE, FRHistS, College Lecturer in History. His particular interests lie in British and Western European History between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Land Economy
(1) * Catherine MacKenzie, MA, Med, PhD, Barrister, Lecturer in Law in the Department of Land Economy. Her particular interests lie in international law and international environmental law.

Law
(1) *Janet O'Sullivan, MA, Solicitor, University Senior Lecturer in Law, whose special interests are Contract and Tort (particularly professional negligence and remedies) and Restitution.
(2) John Spencer, QC, MA, LLB, LLD, Professor of Law. His special interests lie in and around Criminal Law, Comparative Law, Tort and Medical Law.

Linguistics
(1) *David Willis, MA, MPhil, DPhil, University Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, with special interests in language change, syntactic theory, Celtic linguistics (especially Welsh and Breton), and Slavonic linguistics (especially Russian and Bulgarian).

Mathematics
(1) *Jack Button, MA, MSc, PhD, College Lecturer in Mathematics. His research interests are in pure mathematics, especially geometric group theory and topology.
(2) Robert Harding, MA, PhD, College Lecturer in Mathematics, formerly Director of the Unit for Innovation in Assessment and Learning, Cambridge Assessment. His special interests are educational technology and interactive learning and assessment materials.
(3) *Nikolaos Nikiforakis, MA, BSc, MSc, PhD. Director (Academic Programmes), Centre for Scientific Computing. His research interests are in supersonic combustion, compressible gas flow, global atmospheric modelling and computational fluid dynamics.
(4) Roberto Saenz, MSc, PhD, Bye-Fellow in Applied Mathematics. His research interests are in infectious diseases dynamics.

Medicine
(1) John Benson, BM, BCh, MA, DM, FRCS, Examiner for the Intercollegiate MRCS Examination and Regional Breast Tutor (Eastern region) for the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Main research interest is carcinogenesis and breast cancer.
(2) Gavin Jarvis, MA PhD, VetMB, MRCVS, College Lecturer in Pharmacology, Senior Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry. His research interests are in the pathogenesis and treatment of arterial thrombosis.
(3) Michael Taussig, MA, PhD, College Lecturer in Pathology, is Head of the Protein Technology Group at Babraham Bioscience Technologies, Cambridge and Chairman of the European Science Foundation Programme in Functional Genomics. His research interests are in antibodies, protein structure, and genomics.
(4) Robert Whitaker, MA, MD, MChir, FRCS, formerly University Lecturer in Paediatric Urology and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Urologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Demonstrator in the Department of Anatomy.

Modern and Medieval Languages
(1) Angeles Carreres, PhD, Senior Language Teaching Officer in Spanish, with a special interest in the theory and practice of translation.
(2) David Holton, MA, DPhil, Professor in Modern Greek, who works particularly on the Greek Language and on Modern Greek Literature since the sixteenth century.
(3) *Michael Tilby, MA, PhD, College Lecturer in French, whose special interests are in French literature since 1800.
(4) David Willis, MA, MPhil, DPhil, University Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, with special interests in language change, syntactic theory, Celtic linguistics (especially Welsh and Breton), and Slavonic linguistics (especially Russian and Bulgarian).
(5) *Charlotte Woodford, MA, MSt, DPhil, College Lecturer in German, with special interests in German literature of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.

The College also has lectors in French (Ms Camille Francois) and German (Dr Christiane Weidenfeld).

Music
(1) *Andrew Jones, MA, DPhil, PGCE, ARCM, ARCO, GRSM, University Senior Lecturer in Music. He specialises in music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and in performance practice.

Natural Sciences
(1) *Michael Aitken, MA, PhD, University Lecturer in Experimental Psychology. His research interests include reflective and intuitive decision making, causal induction and learning theory.
(2) *Daniel Beauregard, BSc, MSc(Hons), PhD, College Lecturer in Chemistry. Research focused on development of magnetic resonance imaging techniques.
(3) *Nicholas Butterfield, BSc, MA, PhD, University Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences, specialising in Precambrian and early Palaeozoic palaeobiology.
(4) Bill Clegg, BSc, DPhil, Reader in Ceramics, whose research interests are in the fabrication and properties of ceramics and network structures.
(5) Paul Elliott, MA PhD. Bye-Fellow in Zoology. His research interests include the biology, impacts and control of aquatic invasive species.
(6 *Keith Grainge, MA, PhD, College Lecturer in Physics. His special interest is in experimental cosmology.
(7) *James Keeler, MA, DPhil, University Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Director of Teaching in the Department of Chemistry. His special interest is in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
(8) Amer Rana, BSc, MA, PhD, College Lecturer in Biological Sciences. The British Heart Foundation Lecturer in Vascular Biology Division of Respiratory Medicine Department of Medicine, Addenbrooke.s Hospital. His research interests are in molecular embryology, iPS and stem cell biology, human genetic disease (including cancer), regenerative medicine and functional genomics/systems biology.
(9) *Stewart Sage, MA, PhD, ScD. Reader in Cell Physiology, working on calcium signalling mechanisms in blood platelets.
(10) Jeremy Sanders, BSc, PhD, ScD, FRS, Head of the School of Physical Sciences, and Professor of Chemistry. His research interests include organic, inorganic and biological chemistry.
(11) Michael Taussig, MA, PhD, College Lecturer in Pathology, is Head of the Protein Technology Group at Babraham Bioscience Technologies, Cambridge and Chairman of the European Science Foundation Programme in Functional Genomics. His research interests are in antibodies, protein structure, and genomics.

Politics, Psychology & Sociology
(1) *Patrick Baert, Lic.Soc.Sci. (Brussels), DPhil (Oxon), Reader in Social Theory. His interests include social theory, philosophy of social science, history of philosophy, sociology of culture and sociology of ideas.

Theology
(1) *Andrew Chester, MA, PhD, Reader in Early Jewish and Christian Thought. Special interests include eschatology, messianic hope and early Christology.
(2) David Ford, BA, MA, PhD, Regius Professor of Divinity, Director of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, and Chairman of the Management Committee of the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies. He specialises in hermeneutics, modern Christian theology and dialogue between faiths.

Veterinary Medicine
(1) *David Chivers, MA, PhD, ScD, formerly Reader in Primate Biology and Conservation. His special interests are in mammalian gut anatomy and primate socio-ecology and conservation, and he is also Director of Studies in Biological Anthropology.
Directors of Studies
In some subjects, the direction of studies is undertaken on behalf of the College by other Senior Members of the University:-

Anglo-Saxon: Dr Fiona Edmonds
Architecture: Dr Max Gwiazda
Education: Dr David Whitley
Geography: Dr Iain Black
History of Art: Dr Cordula van Wyhe
Italian: Mrs Julie Dashwood
Management Studies: Dr Chander Velu
Philosophy: Dr Sophia Connell
Veterinary Medicine (Clinical): Professor Michael Herrtage

Other Fellows
Peter Agar, MA, University Development Director, who co-ordinates the University.s fund-raising activities.
Peter Fox, MA, University Librarian Emeritus.
Colin Humphreys, CBE, BSc, MA, PhD, Hon DSc, FREng, Professor and Director of Research in Materials Science.
Ms Sarah MacDonald MA, FRCO, Fellow in Music, Director of Music in Chapel.
The Revd Canon Hugh Shilson-Thomas, MA, Dean of Chapel and Chaplain, whose interests include Anglicanism (including its relationship with Higher Education), contemporary Christian thought, and dialogue between faiths and bioethics.


In addition, there are a number of Fellows who are now retired, including two former Masters of the College:-

Owen Chadwick, OM, KBE, DD, FBA, Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History (Master, 1956-83).
Sir David Harrison CBE, MA, ScD, FREng, formerly Vice-Chancellor of the Universities of Keele and Exeter (Master 1994-2000).
William Brock, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Glasgow University.
Mike Young MA, PhD, formerly Fellow in Pharmacology.
David Newland, MA, ScD, FREng, Professor Emeritus of Engineering, formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University.
Mića Panić MA, PhD, formerly Fellow in Economics and College Bursar.
Robin Hesketh MA, PhD, formerly Fellow in Biochemistry.
Ken Wallace MA, FIMechE, FREng, Professor of Engineering Design.